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Cost-effective or profligate community psychiatry?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

Peter Tyrer
Peter Tyrer*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, Paterson Centre, London W2 1PD
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 172 , Issue 1 , January 1998 , pp. 1 - 3
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Copyright © 1998 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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